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MEMBER DIARY

Seattle, Arizona

The bar keeps getting lower for narratives of raw footage on newscasts. Recall the “40 year old white guy” we were told about, seen leaving a smouldering SUV in Times Square. Was that a more forthright product than omitting the footage altogether?

And so what if they did not air it? The Chief of Police didn’t even bring the matter to the Mayor’s attention for three weeks. Was the chief waiting for the onslaught of racial profiling in Arizona to give him some cover?